Smyrna times., 1887-06-15

quite an ariness of style appropriate
to the season.
THE peach June-drOp has come this
year with a thud. ManyOf the farmers
who two weeks ago counted their crops
by the thousand baskets, now count by
the hundreds. One land owner who
took tour of observation ON Monday
ended up with an estimation of one
sixth of crop on the average. Yet
we find a farmer here and there who
tells us his trees promise a satisfactory
crop.
THE following officers of Harmony
Lodge, No. 13, A. f. and A. NJ, were
installed on Tuesday evening last
w. NJ, Chas. E. Moore; S. W., N. F.
Wilds; ]. W., Isaac H. FAIRIES; Secre-
tary, Geo. M. Stevenson; Treasurer,
Thomas B. Megear S. D., Jas. H. An
thony J. D., John V. Spruance S. S.,
David I. Smithers; J. S., VIM. B. Me-
gear; Tyler, John r. Cameron, Jr.
After the meeting adjourned they re-
paired to Stevenson & Peregoy's ice
cream saloon.
AN exchange in discussing the late
arrivals of the fruit trains in the CITY
and the disposition to test the pay for
the fast time not rendered SAYS:
The combine" will win. It ought
to be forever settled that railroads
have no legal redress when they set
about such organized extortion as is
practiced on our fruit growers. If a
carrier charges and advanced rate for
quick time and then fails to make the
quick time the shipper ought to recover
and we think the courts would so
decide.
THIS is commencement season, and
within the next fortnight our various
schools, academies and colleges will
make preparations for the midsummer
holidays, which commence with the
closing exercises at the institutions
OF learning in ourcOuntry. The young
graduates are now supposed thorough
ly equipped for the battle of life, in
which they get some hard knocks, but
a good deal ffun if they are so minded.
which depends on themselves, whether
they have more knocks than enioy-
ment.
MR.. REGISTER sends the following as
the arrival of the berry trains:
Wednesday, June 8th.-First train,
O'Clock; second train 4.3O o'clock
25 cars.
Thursday, June 9th--First train 2.8O
O'Clock; second train, 4.3O o'clock-2O
cars.
Friday, June 1Oth.-First train.
o'clock-19 cars.
Saturday, June 11th.-First train, 5
O'clock-13 cars.
Tuesday, June 14th.-5 o'clOck-6
cars. Berries have Just arrived in this
city at 6.15 o'clock; Jerseys in at 1
o'clock.
WE hear less of the ravages of the
rose bug this week, and think the in
sect has spent its short but festive life.
and is disappearing. The crop that
has suffered the most has been that of
the grape, entirely destroying the crop
on a number of farms, while on others
they were hardly disturbed. The
grapes especially sought after was the
Moore's EARLY, which but few have
been left. The grapes are now out of
the blossom state, and less liable to be
disturbed. In fact one farmer told us
several days ago that they had left his
grapery and gone to his blackberry
blossoms.
The excursion and picnic season
has commenced ere the hot days have
arrived. The Delaware Avenue Bap-
tist Sunday school, of Wilmington,
opened the way with a large excursion
on the Thomas CLYDE to Woodland
Beach yesterday, followed by the
Home school of Herman Roe, of this
town to-day. The first excursion to
Cape May, on the steamer ReDubLic.
will take place tO-mOrrOw-the Grace
M. e. Sunday school, of Wilmington
the Asbury school going to Andalusia
above Philadelphia on Friday. The
excursions of different societies will
form conspicuous feature of the next
several weeks.
THERE are a few farmers in the
country, we need not name them. to
whom the following newspaper para
graph might apply:
The people of Rising Sun, Texas.
make everybody work. Recently
family of idlers prepared their land for
planting in a slipshod manner. Thew
were visited by a crowd of twenty
nelghbors, who compelled them to do
their work over and do it well. The
ldlers were then warned that if thew
failed to plant or work their land well
in the future they would be driven
from the community, but they were as
sured that if they worked as other peo-
pie did they would be in no danger.
THE children's day service at Friend
ship church in ThOrOughfare Neck, on
Sunday proved so attractive that the
church would not begin to hold the
people. The floral decorations included
several handsome design. The Walk
er's school house Sunday school took
TO the woods and had stands, seats. &c
The services here were in the afternoon
and the place and numbers in atten-
dance gave it the appearance
of a small camp meeting. The
floral arrangement here too was quite
conspicuous. Addresses were made at
both places by Revs. Jas. C. LasselI.
VIM. FAIRIES and DIR. Isenburg. of this
town, with a general supervision bv
Rev. Mr.. Conway the pastor.
GEO. w. INGRAM, of Middletown.
was in Smyrna on Monday for the pur-
pose of getting up the Kent countys
quota of stock for the telephone line
from Wilmington to Milford. The line
from the first named place to Townsend.
has been guaranteed. MiddletOwn has
subscribed $500; Odessa, 5000: Della.
ware City and St. Georges, $500
Townsend, Sl00 which is a total of
81 100 in New Castle county. Ex-
changes are, to be established at all
these points. The project is to run the
line through Smyrna, Clayton, Dover.
Camden, Magnolia, Freder-
lea to Milford. A single subscription
costs $40 and no man is asked to take
more than two. The amount desired
from Smyrna and pOyer, $500 each was
readily obtained.
CHILDRENs DAY on Sunday morning
at the Presbyterian church was a verV
interesting occasion and called to the
quite number besides the u.s.
ual congregation. The flower decora-
tlOns were quite attractive including
the baptismal font with its neat ar. |
engagements of blooms and pendant
vines opposite this were rustic baskets |
ana IN the centre Q bank of flowers |
covering the communion table. Bean |
tliul boquets adorned the pulpit and |
windows. The exercises consisted of |
she Children.s Day service, the leading